Lab Biological Microscope

Model Number
BM-800

User Manual

This manual is written for lab biological microscope BM-800. For safety, exerting best
performance of the instrument, and making you familiar with the instrument entirely, we strongly
recommended that you carefully read this manual before using the microscope.
Contents BM-800

Use Notices

1、Name of Components 1

2、Installation 2

2-1、Installation Diagram 2

2-2、Installation Steps 3

3、Adjustment 7

4、Operation 9

5、 Technical Specifications 13

6、 Trouble Shooting 14
Use Notices BM-800
I、Safety note

1. Carefully open the box, avoid the accessories, like lens, dropping to ground and being
damaged.
2. Do keep the instrument out of direct sunlight, high temperature or humidity, dusty and easy
shaking environment. Make sure the stage is smooth, horizontal and firm enough.
3. When moving the instrument, please use two hands to grip with the two sides of the
microscope body.
4. If the bacterium solution or the water splash to the stage, objective or viewing tube, pull out the
power cord at once, and wipe up the microscope. Otherwise, the instrument will be damaged.
5. When running, the lamp house and nearby parts will be very hot. Please ensure there is
enough cooling room for them.
6. Make sure the instrument is earthed, to avoid lighting strike.
7. For safety, be sure the main switch is in “O”(off) state before replace the halogen lamp or the
fuse, then cut off the power, and do the operation after the lamp bulb and the lamp house
completely cool.
8. Check the input voltage: be sure the input voltage which signed in the back of the microscope
is consistent with the power supply voltage, or it will bring a serious damage to the instrument.
9. Use the factory supplied power cord, please.

II、Maintenance

1. All the lenses have been well checked and adjusted. It is forbidden to disassemble them
yourself.
2. The nosepiece and coarse/fine focus unit have a compact and precise frame, please don’t
disassemble them as possible as you can.
3. Keep the instrument clean, wipe dust regularly, and be attention to avoid contaminating the
optical elements especially.
4. The contaminations on the prism, as finger mark and oil, could be gently wiped with a piece of
soft cloth or tissue paper, gauze which has been immersed in pure alcohol or xylene. (note
that the alcohol and the xylene are all burned easily, do not let them near the fire, and
use them in a drafty room as possible as you can.)
5. Don’t use organic solvent to wipe the non-optical elements, when you need to clean, use the
soft detergent, please.
6. When using, if the microscope is splash by liquid, cut off the power at once, and wipe up the
moisture.
7. Do not disassemble any parts of the microscope. That will affect the function or decline the
performance of the microscope.
8. Place the instrument in a cool, dry position. After using the microscope, remember to cover it
with dust helmet. Do wait for the lamp house cooling completely before cover.
1. Name of Components BM-800

Eyepiece (Ocular) Video Port (optional)

Trinoclular Viewing Unit

Nosepiece

Objective

Lamp House

Mechanical
Stage

Microscope Body
2．Installation BM-800

2-1 Installation Diagram

The following figure shows the installation sequence of the components. The number in the figure
show the installation steps.

 Before installing, be sure every components is clean, do not score any parts or glass
surface.
 Keep well with the supplied hexagon wrench. When changing the components, you will
need it again.
 Video Port (optional)

10 × Wide Field
Eyepiece
② Trinocular Viewing Unit

Infinite Plan Objective

③
Microscope Body

Mechanical Stage Support

Lamp House
Device
2-2 Installation Steps BM-800

Guide Board

Locking Block and Bolt

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2-2-1 Installing the Mechanical Stage Support Device

 Before installing the device, be sure to adjust the coarse focus knob. Make the guide board (see

figure 1)down to the lowest position, so you can install the mechanical stage support device easily.

 Hold on the mechanical stage support device (figure 2), place it from the top of the guide board

(figure 1), let the device (figure2) falling free until it reach the limit position. Use the hexagon wrench

screw down the locking block, make the stage support device (figure1) and the guide board fixed

together.

 The mechanical stage have been adjusted horizontally and fixed together before leaving

factory. Do not disassembly unless necessary, that may affect the observation precision of

the instrument.
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2-2-2 Installing the Trinocular

Viewing Unit

Insert the trinocular viewing unit (figure4)

into the microscope head (figure5), turn to
4 a proper position, then use the hexagon
wrench screw down the bolt to fix ( See
figure 5 ).
Bolt
2-2-3 Installing and Replacing the
Lamp (figure 6)

 Please use the specified halogen Lamp

6V30W.

1．Hold to the bulb after you wrap it with

5 gauze or other protection materials, and
then deeply insert it into the lamp holder.

2. Replacing Lamp when using or soon after

When using, or soon after it is turned off,

the lamp, the lamp house and nearby
parts will be very hot and will cause
serious burns. Please turn the main
switch on “O” (off), pull out power plug,
and make sure the bulb, the lamp room
Bolt and periphery are all cool. Then, you can
do your replacing.

Lamp House Bolt  Please insert the lamp gently, or it will be

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damaged by excessive extrusion

 Do not touch the Halogen bulb with

your bare hands. It will shorten the
service life or cause it to burst. If you
leave finger marks on the surface
carelessly, clean it with a dry soft cloth.
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2-2-4 Installing the Lamp House

 Keep the bolt on the lamp house

(figure 6) in line with the jack on the back of
the microscope (like the show of figure 7),
then pushing the lamp holder into the
illumination kits gently until they are against
each other (figure 8).
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Jack
2-2-5 Installing the Objective

1. Adjusting the coarse focus knob until the

support device of the mechanical stage reach
its low limit position.
2. Wresting the lowest magnification objective
onto the nosepiece from the left or the right
side (figure 9), then push the nosepiece
clockwise, then place other objectives by the
sequence of low to high magnification ( figure
8 10).
 Installing objective this way will make the
change of magnification to be easier while in
using.
 Clean the objective regularly, the objective of
the inversed microscope is very sensitive to
dust.
 When operating, use 10×magnification
objective to search specimen and focus
firstly, then replace with higher
magnification objective if necessary.
 When replacing the objective, slowly
9 turning the nosepiece until you hear
“clicked”, that means the objective enter the
required position--the light path center.

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Eyepiece
2-2-6 Installing the Eyepiece

Insert the eyepiece (figure 11) into the

eyepiece tube until they are against each
other. The result is showing in the figure
11 12 14.

2-2-7Installing the Video Port

(optional)
Bolt

Insert the video port (figure 12) into the

trinocular unit (figure 13), then screw down
the bolt to fix it. The result is showing in
figure 14.

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 3. Adjustment BM-800

Video Port (optional)

Diopter Ring

Clocking Set

Left Fine Focus Knob

Left Coarse Focus Knob Condenser Focus Knob

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Interpupillar Distance Indicator

Video Port (optional)

Light Path Selector Lever

Swing out Condenser (with Aperture

Diaphragm)

Right Coarse Focus Knob

Field Diaphragm

Portrait Adjustment Knob

Lateral Adjustment Knob

Tension Adjustment Collar Right Fine Focus Knob Brightness Adjustment Knob Main Switch

Note : the video port is optional.

4. Operation BM-800

4-1 Turning on the Lamp (Figure

15)

Connect the power, turn on the main

switch (figure 15) to “-”(on).

4-2 Adjust Brightness (Figure 16)

Main switch Turning the brightness adjustment knob

15
clockwise, the voltage raise, and the
Figure 15
brightness strengthen; turning with the

anti-direction, the voltage decline, and

the brightness weaken.

 Using the lamp in a low voltage condition,

will prolong the use life.

4-3 Adjust the Tension Adjustment

Collar (figure 17)
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Figure 16  The tightness of the tension adjustment

collar has adjusted before leaving

factory, if finding it’s loosing (the

mechanical stage drop itself because of

deadweight), please turning the tension

adjustment collar until the tightness is in

order.

Tension Adjustment Collar

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Figure 17
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4-4 Placing Specimen(figure 18)

Place the slide on the mechanical stage.

Use the stage clips to clamp the slide
gently.

18 Turn the portrait and lateral adjustment

Figure 18 knob of the mechanical ruler, move the
specimen onto the required position.

 Be careful when changing the

objective. If you finish the observation
with the short working distance
objective, and want to change another
one, be careful of not letting the
objective touch the specimen.

4-5 Adjusting the Interpupillar

Distance (Figure 19)

19 The interpupillar distance range:

Figure 19 48mm～75mm. When observing with two
eyes, hold on the left and right prism holder,
turn around the axis, adjust the interpupillar
distance until the left and right fields of view
coincide completely.
4-6 Adjusting the Diopter (Figure
20)

The right ocular tube is fixed. So by

turning the left diopter ring after the right

Diopter Ring ocular focus on the specimen, the operator

who’s left and right eye has different
20 eyesight can obtain a comfortable focus
Figure 20 position with both eyes.
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4-7 Focus (figure21, figure22)

1、 When not using the video set

Push in the light path selector lever (figure 25)
completely, then observe with both eyes. Use the
10×objective focus, to avoid the objective touch
with the specimen, you should raise the
mechanical stage at first, let the specimen close to
the objective, then slowly separating them to
focus.
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The operator can converse turn the coarse focus
Figure 21
knob to get the specimen down ,and search
images in the 10×ocular simultaneously, then use
the fine knob to focus. At this moment, you can
replace other magnification objectives safely, and
focus without the risk of destroying the specimen.

2、When using the video set

Pull out the light path selector lever (see figure25),
observe with both eyes, when the image is sharp,
you can see the pictures directly on the video
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screen which connected by the microphotograph
Figure 22
system through the video mount.

 If you need to fix the stage on a vertical

position to make the observation become
more convenience, take use of the locking
set.

4-8 Adjusting the Swing out

Condenser (Figure 23)
The center of the condenser and the light axes of
the objective are coaxial. It has been adjusted
before leaving factory, so the user needn’t to
adjust them by self.
The highest position of the condenser has been
Swing out Condenser
Aperture Diaphragm adjusted too. It also needn’t any user’s operation.
Turn the condenser focus knob to shift the
23 condenser. It needs to raise the condenser when
Figure 23 using the high magnification objective, and to
decline when using the low magnification one.
1. Using the Swing out Condenser
When using the low magnification objective, turn out the condenser, and let it away from the light
path. While using the high magnification objective, turn it into the light path.
2. Adjusting the Aperture Diaphragm
The aperture diaphragm is designed for the adjustment of the numerical aperture , not for the
brightness. Generally, reducing the diaphragm opening to 70- 80% of the N.A. value of the respective
objective will provide an image of acceptable quality. If you want to observe the image of the aperture
diaphragm, remove one eyepiece and look through the tube. You will see a dark circle encroaching on
the bottom of the tube.
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4-9 Adjusting the Field Diaphragm

(Figure 24)

The control for the field diaphragm is a ring used for

adjusting the area of field diaphragm. When using,

turn the ring to reduce the field diaphragm, look into

the field, if the diaphragm image is faintness, do the

follow steps: first, turn the condenser focus knob, shift

figure 24
the condenser holder to the position where the

observed image of the field of view is sharp; then

open the field diaphragm, let the image full of the field

of view , reduce the mixed light, improving the quality

Light Path of the image.

Selector
Lever
4-10 Switching the Light Path Selection
(Figure 25)

When the light path selector lever on the trinocular

viewing set is pushed in, all the light enters the

binocular tube, so you can do the binocular

figure25 observation. While the lever pull out, some part of

light enters the binocular tube, the left go up , enter

the video tube, so you can observe through the video

equipment.
5． Technical Specifications BM-800
一、 Main specifications

Optical System Infinite Optical System

Compensation Free Trinocular Head ,Inclined at 30, Interpupillar distance:
Viewing Head
48-75mm
Eyepiece (Ocular) Exceed wide field ocular EW10X/22, tubeΦ30 matched
Nosepiece Backward Quintuple Nosepiece
Objective Infinite plan Achromatic: 4×，10×，40×，100×
Coaxial Coarse and Fine Focusing System, Sensitivity and Graduation of Fine
Focus System
Focus: 0.001mm
Double layer mechanical stage, area: 185×142mm, movement range: 75×
Stage
55mm
Koehler Illumination Exposed illumination system, Aspheric collector, halogen lamp 6V30W
Condenser Swing out condenser NA0.9/0.25
二、 Configuration Table
Viewing Head Compensation Free Trinocular Head ●
Eyepiece Extra Wide Field Eyepiece ●
Infinite plan objective: 4×，10×，40×，100× ●
Objective
Infinite Plan Objective: 20× ○
Condenser Swing out Condenser NA0.9/0.25 ●
Video Accessories ○
C Mount 1× ○
Video Mount
C Mount 0.5× ○
Polarization Device ○
Turret Phase
○
Contrast Device
Dark Field Device ○
Fluorescent
○
Attachment
Temperature Control
○
Device
Note: ●Standard outfit，○ Optional
三 、O b j e c t i v e S p e c i f i c a t i o n s
Numerical Value
Working Conjugate Magnification
Aperture Thickness of
Magnification Distance Distance Sign
Diaphragm(N. Cover Slip
（mm） （mm） (Color loop)
A）
4X 0.10 25.42 0.17 ∞ Red
10X 0.25 11 0.17 ∞ Yellow
40X 0.65 0.75 0.17 ∞ Baby Blue
1.25 0.21 0.17 ∞ Black and
100X
White Circle

6． Trouble shooting BM-800

Some problems will happen in the using of the microscope, you could solve them according the following
list

PROBLEMS REASON FOR PROBLEM SOLUTION

I、Optical Part:

The poor contact exists in the lamp Ensure the contact pin and the lamp
house and the illumination system. holder pin work well

1、 Illumination is The lamp bulb spoils change a new bulb

opening, but the field
The brightness adjustment knob is
of view is dark. Adjust the knob in a proper position
set too dark
use the specified halogen Lamp
No use the appointed lamp bulb
6V30W
The nosepiece is not in the located
Adjust it into the located position
2、 The edge of the field position
of view has shadow The surface of the lamp become
Change a new lamp bulb
or the brightness is black
asymmetry The surface of the lens is moldy or
Clean the lens
has contaminant

There are stains on the specimen Change the specimen

3、 Find dust and stain in
the field of view
There are stains on the eyepiece Clean the eyepiece

Mend and correct the objective (send

The objective damage to factory for overhauling)

The lens of the objective and

eyepiece is moldy or have Do cleaning
contaminant
4、 The image is The opening of Aperture diaphragm
Change the opening of the aperture
defocus\low-resolutio and field diaphragm is not proper,
diaphragm and field diaphragm
n and too much astigmatism.
Examine and repair the fine focus
system(send to factory for
Fine focus system is broken
overhauling)

The objective is not in the center of Turn the nosepiece to the located
the light path position
5、 The image focus Adjust the filament position ,let the
surface incline(one The illumination light incline serious light distributing of the field of view
side is clear and the become symmetrical and bright
other side is faint)
The specimen don’t correctly place Put the specimen on the right position
 The nosepiece is not in the located Turn the nosepiece in the required
position position
The interpupillar distance is not Adjust the interpupillar distance
correct correctly
Adjust the diopter according your
6、 The eyes are
The diopter is not right sight
uncomfortable, the
left and right fields of
When look into the objective, do not
view is not coincided .
stare at the specimen but at the
Can’t adapt to binocular
whole field of view, or move the eyes
observation
away to see other things, then back
into the objective

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PROBLEM REASON FOR PROBLEM SOLUTION

II、Mechanical Part:

1、 The coarse focus The tension adjustment collar is too

Loose properly
knob is hard to run tight
2、 The image can’t
stay on the focal
plane in the The tension adjustment collar is too
Tighten properly
process of the loose
observation

III、Electric Part:

Check the power cord, and connect

No power supply
them exactly
1、 The lamp can’t
the installation of the bulb is wrong Install the bulb correctly
light

The bulb burn out Change a new bulb

The bulb burn out in a

Not use the specified lamp Use the required lamp
high frequency

2、 The height of the Not use a appointed lamp use a appointed lamp
brightness is not
The brightness adjustment knob is Adjust the brightness adjustment
enough
used wrong knob in a correct way

The bulb is going to spoil Change the bulb

3、 The light glimpse
The power cord have a poor Check the power cord, and connect
contact them exactly